If neighborsgo were a TV show, we’d call this issue the Winter Finale and probably end on a cliffhanger.

Like, I would write about the Cedar Hill game but not give the score or something.

But we don’t do that at neighborsgo, and before I go any further, let’s congratulate the Cedar Hill Longhorns on winning the Class 5A Division II state championship on Dec. 20, defeating the Darth Vader of high school football teams the Katy Tigers.

Cedar Hill helped the Dallas-Fort Worth area sweep the state in terms of winning titles, along with Allen, Denton Guyer, Argyle and Aledo.

Cedar Hill coach Joey McGuire admitted he didn’t get any sleep the night after the win, saying on Twitter that he went home, watched the game twice and “we won again.”

But for those of you who have been readers for the past few years, you know it’s that time when we take a look back at some of the special stories we worked on within the past Calendar year.

This year is no different, and it was a great year for stories. We found out about a special dog named Shelman, sent here in exile of sorts from Iran after a religious leader called dogs unclean and issued death sentences.

We told you how Shelman arrived on this shores in one of our February issues, but now you can find out what kind of life he’s been living since then, as part of our Looking Back series of stories.

We didn’t stop with the pet motif, as reporter Nanette Light, who also did the Shelman story, profiled a Cedar Hill-based mobile veterinarian named Debbie Dailey.

Dailey was just finding out the secrets of her trade back when we did the story, and needless to say, she has learned a lot on the job.

Did our story help increase her business? There’s no way to know for sure, but just for laughs, let’s say yes.

Nanette also tackled a sensitive Veterans Day story about a headstone that belonged to a veteran whom no one could identify. We had a name, but not much else.

That bothered Nanette, but since then she managed to find out a little more about him, and our unknown soldier isn’t so unknown anymore.